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AN ANTIQUE RING
KITTY FAINTS
read the result of their intrigue. Wonder, blank amazement, and then rage, left their plain footmarks on his open face.
" 'It's a cursed lie!' he shouted, to the amazement of every one, 'a villainous, heart-breaking lie ! ' Then, as some rushed toward him. he rapidly measured the length of the ruinous words, and tore its chapter from the tape, to crush it inside of his coat. Like one nursing a viper at his breast, he held it to him, and pushed his way roughly thru his friends.
" 'Quick!' said Dixon. 'The lion's milk is working. Phone Matthews to get Kitty out of the way. '
"But Kitty passed out of the way in a quite different manner, as you shall hear.
"We left her bent over the keyboard, with the swish of entering
skirts rasping in her ears. She felt the hot blood flooding her face and neck, but could not look up from her press of work.
" 'Kitty,' said a sweet voice back of her, half-pleading, half-stern, and then the telephone set up a merciful, warning ring. She reached for the portable desperately, and tried to concentrate her riotous mind on its message: 'That you, Kitty?' came a quick voice. 'Well, light out — duck! The governor has winded things, and is going over like a timber wolf. Look out, quick '
"Something went 'click' in her head, and, with a little sigh, the receiver dropped from her hand. She had fainted dead away, sure enough.
" 'Governor Lou' held the girl's limp hand, on which the antique ring flashed mockingly, and for a long min